François Douaren

Franciscus Duarenus (actually Duarein, Latinized: Franciscus Duarenus, also: François Douaren ) (* 1509 in Saint- Brieuc, † July 23, 1559 in Bourges ) was a French jurist and professor at the University of Bourges.

Life

The son of Judge John Duarenus, graduated from the University of Paris under Guillaume Budé and in Bourges Douaren worked as a lawyer for the Parlement of Paris. 1538 he was appointed to Bourges. After a violent dispute with Baro he resigned his office and returned only in 1551 after Baros death back there.

Like his compatriots Jacques Cujas, François Hotman and Hugues Doneau, which were also known under the heading of "The Elegant lawyers " Douaren is one of the leading representatives of the legal and humanistic school of thought regarding the Roman law in Europe. This law professors from the 16th century leaned against the philological methods of Italian humanists to legal texts. It was her goal, a better understanding of the history of the Roman " Corpus Juris Civilis " (Roman civil law ) bring about.

In addition to numerous commentaries on the Corpus Douaren wrote in 1544 a significant commentary on the Roman law of obligations, the " Commentarius de pactis ", who influenced the modern theories of contract law term. His study program begun in 1544, " De ratione docendi discendique iuris epistola " was the first venture of French humanists, Gallic law ( " mos gallicus " ) form. The core content - language studies, introductory courses to Justinian law, methodical approach to the corpus - have been adopted by most European law faculties.